A compendium of the Theravāda Buddhist philosophy and meditation, the Visuddhimagga, meaning "Path of Purification (清净道论)", was written in Sri Lanka in the early 5th century AD by Venerable Buddhaghosa (觉音尊者).

Ñ(VII,73): Furthermore, it is 'with meaning' because it provides the particular distinction of achievement through practice of the way, and it is 'with detail' because it provides the particular distinction of learning through mastery of scripture. It is 'utterly perfect' because it is connected with the five aggregates of Dhamma beginning with virtue. It is 'pure' because it has no imperfection, because it exists for the purpose of crossing over [the round of rebirths' flood (see M.i,134)], and because it is not concerned with worldly things.

So it is 'well proclaimed' because it 'announces the life of purity that is utterly perfect and pure with meaning and with detail'.

Atthavipallāsābhāvato vā suṭṭhu akkhātoti svākkhāto.

（3）或者以教法是无颠倒之义，故善（suṭṭhu）与说（akkhāto）为善说（svākkhāto）。

Ñ: Or alternatively, it is well proclaimed since it has been properly proclaimed with no perversion of meaning.

Ñ: For the meaning of other sectarians' law suffers perversion since there is actually no obstruction in the [215] things described there as obstructive and actually no outlet in the things described there as outlets,

Ñ: which is why their law is ill-proclaimed; but not so the Blessed One's Law, whose meaning suffers no perversion since the things described there as obstructions and the things described there as outlets are so in actual fact.

Evaṃ tāva pariyattidhammo svākkhāto.

如是先就教法为善说。

Ñ: So, in the first place, the Dhamma of the scriptures is 'well proclaimed'.

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